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...Marlin Fitzwater said two weeks ago. But many economists contend that the slump actually began last summer. "The economy was headed toward a recession before Iraq invaded Kuwait," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the consulting firm Boston Company Economic Advisors. "The invasion was just the nail in the coffin." Richard Hoey, chief U.S. economist for the British investment firm Barclays de Zoete Wedd, concurs: "Only the severity of the recession is uncertain...
...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...
...formal unification is still months away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over...
...Tyson's crown has toppled, and the Trumps have split. Oat bran is no panacea; Drexel is bankrupt. "I suspect," says editor E. Graydon Carter, 40, co-founder of Spy magazine, "that when they find red suspenders cause back problems, that will be the final nail in the yuppie coffin...
...Charles' brothers was involved in a scheme that led to Carol's murder; another, who appears to have known three days after the shooting that Charles was the killer, never told the police. They all grieved publicly over Carol and the baby. Matthew even helped carry Carol's coffin to her grave. The news of Charles' suicide initally elicited ^ sorrow from his in-laws, who had been expecting him for dinner that very night. They thought he did it out of grief. Mrs. DiMaiti had planned to cook chicken because it would be easier on Charles' mangled intestines...